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Monday, January 11, 2016

From
emerging Israeli directors, brothers Yoav and Doron Paz comes an
acclaimed award-winning film “Jeruzalem,” winner of the Audience
Award and Best Editing at the recent 32nd Jerusalem
International Film Festival.

“Jeruzalem”
follows two American girls on vacation who meet an attractive student
studying anthropology during their trip to Jerusalem. A
trip planned to be their best vacation ever, the girls, Sarah
(Danielle Jadelyn) and Rachel (Yael Grobglas, Israel’s budding
scream queen) do the rounds of the tour with newfound friend Kevin in
tow and partying hard in Jerusalem’s ancient sites. The trio
unexpectedly find themselves in the midst of a religious conflict
followed by a series of horrifying biblical apocalypse.

Inspired
by a line from the Talmud that states “There are three gates to
hell: one in the desert, one in the ocean and one in Jerusalem,”
the movie unleashes a chain of demonic events that brought about
terror as the three try to escape between ancient walls of the holy
city.

“We
wanted to give the audience a chance to feel and experience this
dark, mystical and religious city through the eyes of our characters.
To see up close what the resurrection may actually look like, in the
most reasonable place on earth to start the apocalypse,” says Yoav
and Doron on introducing the film.

The
Paz Bros. are the sons of Israeli filmmaker Jonathan Paz (“Waiting
for Surkin”) and grew up in Netanya. Their filmmaking careers began
when they were around 10 or 11 years old. Filmed in found footage
style through a smart digital glass, “Jeruzalem” gives the
audience a rich detail of the city’s culture and history as read
from the Bible.

“We
see it more of a POV (point of view) instead of found footage, we
wanted it so all the other actors are talking to the camera, and when
she crawls in the dark people the audience see how it feels to crawl
in the dark. Like a sort of virtual reality. But we didn’t know
what to do about it. Then a few years ago everyone started talking
about Google glass with verbal technologly and this gave us our
window. This also gave us another layer, a technological layer, where
we could present more information. You don’t see it in the trailer,
but the entire film is through a smart glass – not Google. So
there’s verbal technology and augmented reality. This means we
could use social media in it too as another form of storytelling.
It’s the oldest story with new technology. We don’t like to call
it found footage because, while it’s obviously a found footage
technique, we think this takes it to the next level,” shares Yoav
and Doron of their filmmaking style.

Yoav
and Doron Paz first gained acclaim with their arthouse film
“Phobidilia,” an official selection at TIFF and the Berlin
International Film Festival. Their latest film, “Jeruzalem” marks
a radical new turn as they submerge themselves full-on into
hyper-visceral horror storytelling.

“For
years we thought to ourselves ‘how come nobody did an apocalypse
movie about Jerusalem’ , when it’s the perfect set up for it.
You’ve seen movies about the apocalypse in cities all around the
world: Bostin, then you have REC – everywhere, but nobody’s been
dealing with Jerusalem itself. Though the bible, and its scriptures
are set there, so that’s where we took it,” further shares Yoav
on the concept of the movie.

“Jeruzalem”
opens in theatres nationwide on January 20 from Pioneer
Films.

Check
out the film’s trailer below:

JeruZalem: Trailer
JeruZalem: TrailerOpens January 20Viewers' Choice PhilippinesSynopsis: When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city
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